It's official - I've survived 3 weeks at the new job. Even have my first paycheck now! Yay!
I have learned, however, that something about me seems to say "I clean up messes." Before, it was the previous person who held my position at Horrible Job. Rather someone who never grew up, despite being in his 30s. His files were a disorganized mess, and his notes were IMPOSSIBLE to work from. Took a while to straighten that one out.
Now, I am a manager here on post, and the former manager (F.M.) left things in a bit of disarray about a month and half before I started. Things weren't on the best of terms between the staff and F.M. when F.M. left either, so there are still some disgruntled feelings to soothe over. Lovely. They've been stretched very thin over the past few months, low staffing and then covering managerial duties too, since F.M. left. I really did get dropped in the midst of a bit of a mess. Still, the staff is a good bunch, and we have great hopes for the facility and getting it back to what it should be. I'm really pretty excited about it, despite the long meetings involved and the forms-for-everything set-up.
Funny thing is, even being a paper-pusher and having this mess to clean up, I'm SO much happier than in SC with Horrible Job!! One of those situations where you don't realize how bad it was until you're out of it and looking back behind you. I'm feeling physically lighter, if you can believe it, not so worn down and drained. I'm working out more, and reading more, and knitting more - I just have so much more energy than before. I don't come home from work and collapse in front of a movie and just try to forget my day, or the fact that I have to go back again then next. I don't mind being with people outside of work, or doing things on the weekends. I can actually be myself again! You simply would not believe how much happier I am out here in the middle of nowhere.
'Course, I do still want to burn down the disorganized filing cabinet dominating my office space and rebuild the files from scratch...
I have learned, however, that something about me seems to say "I clean up messes." Before, it was the previous person who held my position at Horrible Job. Rather someone who never grew up, despite being in his 30s. His files were a disorganized mess, and his notes were IMPOSSIBLE to work from. Took a while to straighten that one out.
Now, I am a manager here on post, and the former manager (F.M.) left things in a bit of disarray about a month and half before I started. Things weren't on the best of terms between the staff and F.M. when F.M. left either, so there are still some disgruntled feelings to soothe over. Lovely. They've been stretched very thin over the past few months, low staffing and then covering managerial duties too, since F.M. left. I really did get dropped in the midst of a bit of a mess. Still, the staff is a good bunch, and we have great hopes for the facility and getting it back to what it should be. I'm really pretty excited about it, despite the long meetings involved and the forms-for-everything set-up.
Funny thing is, even being a paper-pusher and having this mess to clean up, I'm SO much happier than in SC with Horrible Job!! One of those situations where you don't realize how bad it was until you're out of it and looking back behind you. I'm feeling physically lighter, if you can believe it, not so worn down and drained. I'm working out more, and reading more, and knitting more - I just have so much more energy than before. I don't come home from work and collapse in front of a movie and just try to forget my day, or the fact that I have to go back again then next. I don't mind being with people outside of work, or doing things on the weekends. I can actually be myself again! You simply would not believe how much happier I am out here in the middle of nowhere.
'Course, I do still want to burn down the disorganized filing cabinet dominating my office space and rebuild the files from scratch...
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